There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal in The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1993)
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